Lauren > Lauren's Quotes

“No scorn like the scorn of an aging queen for a pretty girl with a crap fake DL.”
― Janet Fitch

“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Everyone is someone's devil.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.”
― Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin